hard-drinking
adjective
—used to describe a person who often drinks a lot of alcohol
He had a troubled relationship with his violent, hard-drinking father.
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The mattress belongs to William Lee, a hard-drinking American expat who spends his days and nights cruising the city’s bars in search of the next hot, young arrival.
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Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
The son of immigrants — a hard-drinking father from Scotland and a reproving mother from Germany — Baird and his siblings grew up poor in Brooklyn, N.Y.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
Set over 50 years, the drama charts Phyllis’ journey as an eccentric, hard-drinking mom who constantly uproots her family.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
Where to watch: Hulu Mad Men The slick glamour of the 1960s advertising world is the backdrop for Mad Men, a dark drama that oscillates around the charismatic, though hard-drinking and philandering executive Don Draper (Jon Hamm).
—Cady Lang, TIME, 16 May 2024
But the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, whatever its authenticity, has ever since stood as a monument to hard-drinking existentialists, including, presumably, Post Malone.
—Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 9 Apr. 2024
With the arrival of the jet age in the 1960s, the island became a quagmire of sun-and-sand mass tourism, with chunks of its coast quickly barnacled with cheap all-inclusive refuges catering to hard-drinking Brits and Germans.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
Karaoke became a Japanese obsession in the 1970s, associated with hard-drinking salarymen kicking back after work with sake and song.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
In that hard-drinking era, sommeliers were considered snobbish, condescending types who cajoled diners into overspending.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
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Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
The son of immigrants — a hard-drinking father from Scotland and a reproving mother from Germany — Baird and his siblings grew up poor in Brooklyn, N.Y.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
Set over 50 years, the drama charts Phyllis’ journey as an eccentric, hard-drinking mom who constantly uproots her family.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
Where to watch: Hulu Mad Men The slick glamour of the 1960s advertising world is the backdrop for Mad Men, a dark drama that oscillates around the charismatic, though hard-drinking and philandering executive Don Draper (Jon Hamm).
—Cady Lang, TIME, 16 May 2024
But the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, whatever its authenticity, has ever since stood as a monument to hard-drinking existentialists, including, presumably, Post Malone.
—Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 9 Apr. 2024
With the arrival of the jet age in the 1960s, the island became a quagmire of sun-and-sand mass tourism, with chunks of its coast quickly barnacled with cheap all-inclusive refuges catering to hard-drinking Brits and Germans.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
Karaoke became a Japanese obsession in the 1970s, associated with hard-drinking salarymen kicking back after work with sake and song.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
In that hard-drinking era, sommeliers were considered snobbish, condescending types who cajoled diners into overspending.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
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